Your Yearbook2 is safe
and sound, even with the huge delay, since all correspondence today is so uncertain.
Everything I've read so far is again so sincere and revealing that I can only thank you ‒
truly from the bottom of my heart. I have made contact with Schwers of the Allgemeine Musikzeitung,3 where often so much meaningless blathering is
uttered, and have secured the review there. I will also pay tribute to the Yearbook in the
book announcements of my almanac.4

I understand and respect your reasons not to write anything on Beethoven for the almanac. I will therefore
make the attempt myself.

There are many things to do this week. At the beginning of August we are
going to Berlin, in order to begin to
plant the seeds. I have to tempt fate with this undertaking; otherwise it will not work any
more.

I read a while ago in an ‒ in itself trivial ‒ popular essay in an
illustrated newspaper something about scientific research into "Music in Nature." It was
said there that the tones produced by a fast-flowing stream have been
measured, and that they are the three tones of the triad, C, E, G;
and if the noise level rises, the under-dominant F is clearly heard
in addition. These four are the measurable and definable tones of a
stream.

Your Yearbook2 is safe
and sound, even with the huge delay, since all correspondence today is so uncertain.
Everything I've read so far is again so sincere and revealing that I can only thank you ‒
truly from the bottom of my heart. I have made contact with Schwers of the Allgemeine Musikzeitung,3 where often so much meaningless blathering is
uttered, and have secured the review there. I will also pay tribute to the Yearbook in the
book announcements of my almanac.4

I understand and respect your reasons not to write anything on Beethoven for the almanac. I will therefore
make the attempt myself.

There are many things to do this week. At the beginning of August we are
going to Berlin, in order to begin to
plant the seeds. I have to tempt fate with this undertaking; otherwise it will not work any
more.

I read a while ago in an ‒ in itself trivial ‒ popular essay in an
illustrated newspaper something about scientific research into "Music in Nature." It was
said there that the tones produced by a fast-flowing stream have been
measured, and that they are the three tones of the triad, C, E, G;
and if the noise level rises, the under-dominant F is clearly heard
in addition. These four are the measurable and definable tones of a
stream.

Footnotes

1 Receipt
of this letter is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 3/8, p. 2756, July 17, 1926: "Von
Dahms (Br.): dankt für das Jahrbuch, wird darüber in Schwers Zeitung, Berlin, schreiben;
– reist anfangs August nach Berlin, um den Almanach in Bewegung zu setzen." ("From Dahms
(letter): thanks for the Yearbook, will write about it
in Schwers's periodical in Berlin; – he is travelling to Berlin at the beginning of
August, to set the almanac in motion.").